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The Number 1 Tip to Ensure Returns on Your Firm’s Digital Strategy

N2Growth Blog

A review of the project exposed the need for developing a mobile computing application as a means to support the newly reengineered business process; Service Delivery Project: A country-wide retailer wanted to initiate a voice of customer effort to better service and retain its customer-base.

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership.

Company 246
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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This small team was one of the most productive, spirited and lively groups I''ve ever known. In small businesses, however, there are fewer decision-makers, and they’re so close to customers, employees and daily operations that they can get a sense of whether a decision is right or wrong very quickly. Customer Intimacy.

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The Small Business Advantage

Six Disciplines

This small team was one of the most productive, spirited and lively groups I''ve ever known. In small businesses, however, there are fewer decision-makers, and they’re so close to customers, employees and daily operations that they can get a sense of whether a decision is right or wrong very quickly. Customer Intimacy.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

How well do you know your customers? This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers.

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Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

Harvard Business Review

They can actually make it easier to tailor customer experiences at low cost. As Chief Marketing Officer Paul Matsen told me, "We use enterprise-wide standards. There is one marketing communications team, and we work across all our institutes, such as heart and vascular, or cancer.

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IBM at 100: How to Outlast Depression, War, and Competition

Harvard Business Review

At its 100-year milestone, IBM shows us what it takes to outlast depression, war, and intense competition in order to remain a market leader in the midst of ongoing technological innovation. By 1955, IBM's revenues were $564 million and it led the world market in making computers. Here are several lessons worth sharing.